Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects
Pulling hose and fill tubes, hurt back.
Knife River Portable Plant SD-1Metal/Nonmetal
Knife River - South Dakota · Surface
Controlled by Knife River Corporation
Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, SD · Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3900292
- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 2
- Years on record
- 2005
- Latest incident
- Aug 2005
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
2 on file2005 · 2 incidents
Struck by falling object
Employee was removing the cutting edge bolts with an air wrench. One of the bolts dropped out of the sq. slot. He pushed the bolt back up into the sq slot-when he used the air wrench to remove the nut & bolt, nut & air wrench dropped. The head of the bolt dropped down out of the sq slot and cut through his glove and cut tip of left index finger.